12.17.2008

Judge signs order to protect Madoff investors

Un-flipping-believable. Cheated investors who need protection?!?!?!? We got your cheated people who need protection right here with the US taxpayers. Where is OUR RELIEF?? - Ed.

NEW YORK – A federal judge on Monday threw a lifesaver to investors who may have been duped in one of Wall Street's biggest alleged frauds, saying they need the protection of a special government reserve fund set up to help investors at failed brokerage firms.

U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton ordered that clients of Bernard Madoff's private investment business seek relief under a federal statute created to rescue cheated investors. Stanton also ordered that business be liquidated under the jurisdiction of a bankruptcy court and named attorney Irvin H. Picard as trustee to oversee that process.

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